R: Scrape DESCRIPTION from CRAN for each pkg.

getCranDescription {miniCRAN}

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Scrape DESCRIPTION from CRAN for each pkg.

Scrape DESCRIPTION from CRAN for each pkg.

getCranDescription(pkg, repos = getOption("repos"), type = "source",
  pkgs = pkgDep(pkg, repos = repos, type = type))

`pkg`	Character vector of packages.
`repos`	URL(s) of the 'contrib' sections of the repositories, e.g. `"http://cran.us.r-project.org"`. Passed to `available.packages()`
`type`	Possible values are (currently) "source", "mac.binary" and "win.binary": the binary types can be listed and downloaded but not installed on other platforms. Passed to `download.packages()`.
`pkgs`	Character vector of packages to download

## Not run: 
getCranDescription(c("igraph", "ggplot2", "XML"),
  repos = c(CRAN = getOption("minicran.mran"))
)

## End(Not run)

[Package miniCRAN version 0.2.10 Index]